Product Design and Development

Code:

EDDP0001

Acronym:

DDP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Personal and Communicational Development
OFICIAL	Product design

Instance: 2010/2011 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Mechanical Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Specialization in Product Design and Development

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EADDP	3	Syllabus since 2010/11	1	-	3	28	81
EDDP	24	Syllabus since 2010/11	1	-	3	28	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

This course aims to familiarize students with a cooperative and complementary reading of the process of design and product development based on assumption of differentiated targets to be achieved by the participants in each of the 3 scientific areas involved: Design, engineering and management.
Skills to develop: be part of a multidisciplinary team of project, in a more operative position facing the scientific competences. Monetize the different visions of product in a homogeneous and sustainable planning result.

Program

1.1.1. - Design
1.1.1.1. - Design Definition
1.1.1.2. - Product Design
1.1.1.3. - Product Development
1.1.1.4. - Development Design
1.1.2. - Products
1.1.2.1. - Product Concept
1.1.2.2. – User perception and value of products
1.1.2.3. - Product Development in action
1.1.3. - PDD Management
1.1.3.1. - Cost and fees
1.1.3.2. - Efficient use of time
1.1.3.3. - Intelectual property
1.1.4. - Innovation
1.1.4.1. – Innovation as mental model
1.1.4.2. - Case study
1.1.5. – Monography of a portuguese product (individual work)
1.1.5.1. – Rules to obey
1.1.5.2. - Support to the individual work
1.1.5.3. – Presentation of the monographies

Mandatory literature

Bernhard E. Bürdek; Design: History, Theory and Practice of Product Design, Basel - Boston - Berlin 2005 (Birkhäuser Verlag). ISBN: ISBN 3-7643-7029-7 (english)
Roberto Verganti ; Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean, Harvard Business Press. ISBN: 978-1-4221-24 82 -6

Teaching methods and learning activities

Given the few hours (3 ECTS) and introductory nature of the course, as well as the convenience of the concepts have been exposed previously at the beginning of the activity planning sessions, lectures in the classroom-lessons and speeches of guests, which in this very particular and unique case in the curriculum of the formative offer in DDP will be for the whole period of 20h– contact will be concentrated in the initial two weeks of the course. The exhibition will be supported by audio visual presentations with tight integration of image. The discipline will be reduced over the remaining period of the semester, to some spaced sessions to support the elaboration of the monographies.

Software

não aplicável

keywords

Technological sciences > Engineering > Design engineering

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	28,00
monographie	Trabalho escrito	53,00		2011-02-11
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

FEUP rules

Calculation formula of final grade

Monographie: 100%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

Not applicable